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Deep Wounds Deep Healing: Discovering the Vital Link Between Spiritual Warfare and Inner Healing

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Of all the books on inner healing and deliverance that I have read, this one has been one of the two most helpful. Dr. Kraft not only explains what happens in a ministry session, he also explains how to do it. A must for those wanting to see God move in this type of ministry!

Great book. Excellent practical ways as a self-help or for ministry to others. It gives examples and guidelines for how to walk through letting Christ do the healing and for getting rid of spirits in a non-violent way. Very helpful.

This book is a must have. It will give you a clear and bigger understanding of this whole issue. It gives very helpful
how to's in overcoming and getting deep level healing. Since reading this book I have purchased Charles Kraft's book Defeating Dark Angels and wow, this book is also a 5 star. Suggest you purchase both books at the same time from Amazon, you'll be very happy you did. This could be the best anytime gift or Christmas Gift to yourself or someone you love and care about who is looking for answers and healing!

I'm writing as a Christian Evangelical, who has had experience in the Charismatic movement. I got this book looking for perspectives on spiritual warfare, which I've neglected until recently. Because Charles Kraft has been at Fuller Theological Seminary since 1969, he writes from a theologically sound, academic, and practical standpoint. In other words, there's no loosey-goosey, name-it-and-claim-it, wish-fulfillment, "Secret" theological trash here. I really appreciated Kraft's solid, non-judgemental explanation of how Christians can be demonized (not "possessed"), and that his ministry is primarily a LOVING one. It was mind opening, and spiritually revealing. I'm reading more of his books - Christianity With Power and I Give You Authority - to learn better how to pray and intercede. I do see the world with different eyes, which seems to come by closing them and praying more.

The author helps guide us to a concept of Gods healing love that has been neglected to long.He doesn't deny the effectiveness of medical or professional couseling. He helps one
to understand the importance of seeking Gods healing of our spirit, soul, and body when we have deep emotional wounds. Having received the beauty of this inner healing of deep emotional wounds myself, this book has given me courage to begin helping others.

Dr. Kraft does a wonderful job of joining the issues of emotional trauma and spiritual injury (and subsequent healing). This is not a book for the recently converted, nor is it something that the seminary-trained mind might easily digest. It is my view that a fair amount of Spiritual maturity is required simply to fathom the issues raised by the text.

If you believe that many (or most) are suffering, and that dark forces feed off this misery, then this book should be investigated. If you are completely convinced that what you learned in last Sunday's sermon is all anybody really needs to confront to the difficulties facing Christians in the 21st Century, then perhaps this is not your read.

Entirely orthodox, entirely grounded in Scripture, this is one good book.

This is an informative, easy-to-understand book on deep healing, but it is easier to grasp if the reader already has some understanding of prayer for healing and deliverance. I was reading in hopes of learning more about doing this for others, but ended up feeling as though it was too difficult to do. After reading it (and a book by the Sandfords) I feel much less inclined to try to become involved in this ministry.

I sponsored a conference on Personal Growth Tools. I used this book to introduce the subject to my Pastors and to get their approval for the rest of the church to attend this week end seminar. Big Mistake! Once the pastors read this book and I read this book the war was on.
There is a clear "victimization" mentality articulated in this text. I had a war to try and get the pastors to understand that this was "just a model" and not the model of inner healing that I have experienced or used to help other that I have counciled in the past. They had an especially hard time with the visualization portion. I have read a wide range of publications regarding this subject, and I took it for what it is which is a particular view which I do not share with the author. This is not set up in a text book form that I had hoped it would be.
Do not use this book to introduce this subject to a novice in this area if they are from a main stream Christian background. It is ok if they come out of a non-christian paradim, or a paradim that has an academic base.
I have been told by people who have taken this class from Dr. Kraft that he is a wonderful man, and gifted teacher. Of this I have no doubt as I trust them to the utmost as their judge of character is superb. However, what happened between teaching this subject and writting about this subject is a mystery.
Oh by the way no one from my church attended this conference in large part to the freak out this work caused for my pastors, as I could not get their heads untracked from what they read.
I rate this book 2 and 1/2 stars. Just don't give it to your pastors.

Haven't read the whole thing, it does get a little wordy,(too much detail) but it is giving me some good information.